The Works of the British Poets: With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, Volume 6John & Arthur Arch; and for Bell & Bradfute, and J. Mundell & Company Edinburgh, 1795 - English poetry - 1157 pages |
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... first scene , the whole fourth act , and the first half , or somewhat more , of the fifth , was written by Dryden . It was professedly written for the party of the Duke of York , whose fucceffion was then opposed . In 1684 , he ...
... first scene , the whole fourth act , and the first half , or somewhat more , of the fifth , was written by Dryden . It was professedly written for the party of the Duke of York , whose fucceffion was then opposed . In 1684 , he ...
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... first or the second of his dramatic per- formances . The next year he brought two plays on the stage , Ampbytrion , a comedy , founded on Plautus and Moliere , which fucceeded on its first appearance , and was revived by Dr. Hawkefworth ...
... first or the second of his dramatic per- formances . The next year he brought two plays on the stage , Ampbytrion , a comedy , founded on Plautus and Moliere , which fucceeded on its first appearance , and was revived by Dr. Hawkefworth ...
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... first the Afian empire overthrew . XCIV . The fee approach'd ; and one for his bold fin Was funk ; as he that touch ... first the martlet meets it in the fky , And with wet wings joys all the feather'd train : CXI . With fuch glad hearts ...
... first the Afian empire overthrew . XCIV . The fee approach'd ; and one for his bold fin Was funk ; as he that touch ... first the martlet meets it in the fky , And with wet wings joys all the feather'd train : CXI . With fuch glad hearts ...
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... first to fhipping did impart , Their tail the rudder , and their head the prow . CLVI . Some log perhaps upon the waters wam , An ufelefs drift , which rudely cut within , And hollow'd first a floating trough became , And cross fome ...
... first to fhipping did impart , Their tail the rudder , and their head the prow . CLVI . Some log perhaps upon the waters wam , An ufelefs drift , which rudely cut within , And hollow'd first a floating trough became , And cross fome ...
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... first obfcurely bred , From thence did foon to open streets aspire , And straight to palaces and temples spread . CCXVI . The diligence of trades and noiseful gain , And luxury more late , afleep were laid : All was the night's ; and in ...
... first obfcurely bred , From thence did foon to open streets aspire , And straight to palaces and temples spread . CCXVI . The diligence of trades and noiseful gain , And luxury more late , afleep were laid : All was the night's ; and in ...
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Page 168 - From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : When Nature underneath a heap of jarring atoms lay, And could not heave her head, The tuneful voice was heard from high. Arise ye more than dead. Then cold and hot, and moist and dry, In order to their stations leap, And music's power obey. From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began : From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man.
Page 264 - For letting down the golden chain from high, He drew his audience upward to the sky...
Page 147 - Better to hunt in fields for health unbought Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend ; God never made his work for man to mend.
Page 106 - These gross, half-animated lumps I leave; Nor can I think what thoughts they can conceive. But if they think at all, 'tis sure no higher Than matter, put in motion, may aspire: Souls that can scarce ferment their mass of clay; So drossy, so divisible are...
Page 41 - A man so various that he seemed to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome : Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong, Was everything by starts and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon ; Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking, Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.
Page 233 - Lycurgus came, the surly king of Thrace ; Black was his beard, and manly was his face: The balls of his broad eyes...
Page 133 - This is thy province, this thy wondrous way, New humours to invent for each new play: This is that boasted...
Page 215 - I have presumed farther in some places, and added somewhat of my own where I thought my author was deficient, and had not given his thoughts their true lustre, for want of words in the beginning of our language.
Page 176 - MARS. Inspire the vocal brass, inspire ; The world is past its infant age : Arms and honour, Arms and honour, Set the martial mind on fire, And kindle manly rage. Mars has look'd the sky to red ; And Peace, the lazy good, is fled.